time for a look at the weather. a wet the un refugee agency says up to 500 people are still missing among them, large numbers of women and children after that overcrowded fishing boat carrying migrants capsized in the mediterranean. there s claim and counter claim over the help or lack of it given to those on the boat. we ll talk to a man in kalamata, who s helping his friend search for his wife, and we ll examine the global migration crisis as well as bringing you a special report from the other side of the med, tunisia, where local fishermen constantly pull from the sea the bodies of migrants who tried to make the dangerous voyages. translation: the first time i was l afraid because i m not so tough. l i was afraid and then, step by step, i got used to it. after a while, getting a dead body out of my net is like getting fish out. and we ll ask the un official in charge of protecting refugees what can the world do about the millions of people on the move? england man
it was an aggression he could get away with. six months of interviews with key players may help you decide if he was right. in late 2021, us and uk intelligence made it clear russia was massing a major fighting force along ukraine s eastern and northern border. this didn t look like a sabre rattling exercise. it looked like an invasion in the making. at first, the ukrainian government led by volodymyr zelensky downplayed it, didn t want to believe it. but by mid january, kyiv s defence minister, oleksii reznikov, felt only massive pre emptive western sanctions could stop putin launching a full on attack. the main message let s show to the kremlin that you seriously understand all threats and you can make this invasion very expensive for them. and you can start with the sanctions on this moment before, not after. if they do not, will you regard that as a betrayal? it will be very late because it will be a lot of blood in the land and it will be a lot of refugees, it wi
of primaries in several us states that could set the tone for november s mid term elections. the democrat representative, charlie crist has won the primary in the us state of florida. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to a special edition of hardtalk with me, stephen sackur. it is six months since vladimir putin ordered a multi front military invasion of ukraine. he set in motion a war which has already taken a terrible human toll and had profound consequences for european security, big power relations, and the world economy. putin calculated it was an aggression he could get away with. six months of interviews with key players may help you decide if he was right. in late 2021, us and uk intelligence made it clear russia was massing a major fighting force along ukraine s eastern and northern border. this didn t look like a sabre rattling exercise. it looked like an invasion in the making. at first, the ukrainian government led by volodymyr zelensky downplayed it, didn t
six months of interviews with key players may help you decide if he was right. in late 2021, us and uk intelligence made it clear russia was massing a major fighting force along ukraine s eastern and northern border. this didn t look like a sabre rattling exercise. it looked like an invasion in the making. at first, the ukrainian government led by volodymyr zelensky downplayed it, didn t want to believe it. but by mid january, kyiv s defence minister, oleksii reznikov, felt only massive pre emptive western sanctions could stop putin launching a full on attack. the main message let s show to the kremlin that you seriously understand all threats and you can make this invasion very expensive for them. and you can start with the sanctions on this moment before, not after. if they do not, will you regard that as a betrayal? it will be very late because it will be a lot of blood in the land and it will be a lot of refugees, it will be disaster for europe, because this war i
Hello, im matthew amroliwala. Welcome to verified live. We start with flooding described as the worst in nearly 100 years in russia and kazakstan. Thousands have been forced from their homes cities under threat, evacuations ongoing. The flooding in the urals and Western Siberia has been caused by unseasonably warm temperatures, which has melted snow. In the russian city of 0renburg home to half a Million People the authorities said water levels had reached dangerous levels. Thousands of people have left the city. 0renburg is downstream from the city of 0rsk, which was inundated when a dam burst last week. Live now to moscow and our Russia Editor steve rosenberg. Steve, editor steve rosenberg. Give me a sense of the sc of steve, give me a sense of the scale of this . ,. , , of this . The first thing to say is that spring of this . The first thing to say is that Spring Flooding of this . The first thing to say is that Spring Flooding is of this . The first thing to say is that Spring Flo